White-lipped snail
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The white-lipped snail or garden banded snail, scientific name Cepaea hortensis, is a large species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae. The
White lipped Snail
Cepaea hortensis
Yellow shell with five unfused bands
C. hortensis love dart (0.5 mm scale bar above and 50 μm below)
Cepaea nemoralis
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Cepaea nemoralis, the grove snail, brown-lipped snail or lemon snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc. Cepaea nemoralis is the type species of the g
White-lipped snail
…a large species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae. The only other species in the genus is Cepaea nemoralis. Cepaea hortensis has a shell up to 22 mm (1 in) in diameter, tending to be slightly smaller than C. nemoralis. The umbilicus is closed in adults, but…
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A diversity of forms
Yellow unbanded
Yellow with several bands